Here's North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, looking like the happiest boy in the world in his Romeo-class submarine. North Korea was assembling these noisy boats from kits up until as late as 1995, but the truth of the matter is, the Romeo-class design is pure 1950s Soviet vintage.

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A 1950s-era submarine is basically useless against any modern navy, but that hasn't stopped Kim Jong-Un for being a proud daddy to all these subs that are, essentially, older than him.

But the design of these rustbuckets is also older than a lot of things. So here's a list of things that were created after the first Romeo-class sub was ever introduced into service, in 1957: